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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?
(a) He proposes that art is a solution to tension between races.
(b) He asks for a specifically American black culture.
(c) He accepts that black experiences can resonate with non-blacks.
(d) He calls for a new pan-Africanism.

2. What term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?
(a) 'King of the kingdom of culture'.
(b) 'Urban-cosmopolitan'.
(c) 'Schizophrenic'.
(d) 'Dual personality'.

3. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) America's metaphor.
(b) The race that dare not speak its name.
(c) The heart of modernity.
(d) The burden of guilt.

4. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Common privation.

5. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Surviving the leap to modernism.
(b) Liberation from slavery.
(c) Acceptance of slavery.
(d) Exile from home.

6. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?
(a) The ideology of family.
(b) The ideology of racial progress.
(c) The ideology of personal emancipation.
(d) The ideology of self-reliance.

7. What does Gilroy say the Afrocentrism movement relies on?
(a) The development of jazz and the blues in America.
(b) An ongoing civilization in Africa.
(c) A linear period of time interrupted by slavery.
(d) A uniquely black culture in England and the U.S.

8. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?
(a) Capitalist exploitation.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Factory production.
(d) Modern marriage.

9. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?
(a) Sustainability.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Oil.
(d) Race.

10. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Pan-Africanism.
(b) Social perfection.
(c) Essential blackness.
(d) Returning to black roots.

11. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) American pragmatism.
(b) Confidence in modernism.
(c) American literature.
(d) International Marxism.

12. What is the role of slavery in the black idea of tradition?
(a) The founding event.
(b) A trial and opportunity for redemption through suffering.
(c) A footnote to the development of sub-Saharan civilizations.
(d) A chance to participate in the ongoing developments of modernism.

13. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Homelessness.
(b) Terror.
(c) Longing.
(d) Rebelliousness.

14. How does Gilroy describe slavery?
(a) Brutal.
(b) Equivocal.
(c) Complex.
(d) Multi-faceted.

15. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
(a) They are the source of all opposition to modernity.
(b) We cannot recover them once they are lost.
(c) They are endangered throughout the world, not just in the black Atlantic.
(d) We can regain them if they are still practiced somewhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?

2. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?

3. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

4. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?

5. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?

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